Straight Up Vampire

Okay, this is late.
Thursday February 11 I went to go see Straight Up Vampire at Joe's Pub. I had actually already seen this production and only attended because it was too good to miss and I wanted to support my favorite playwright, Nick Jones. It's about vampires in colonial PA and it's a love story and it's set to the music of Paula Abdul. The premise is that one crazy sister found her other crazy sister's play and insists on putting it on as a staged-reading. The story of the play is that Paula Abdul Blackwood is in love with an young political-idealist vampire named Jack and they plan to run away together but before that is possible her father marries her off to the horrible wheelwright's son (who has no other name than "the wheelwright's son") this is all occuring at the same time as a vote in Philly that is run by MC Skatt Kat (and to understand this you really have to be familiar with Paula Abdul's music videos, which is kinda sad) opposing Ben Franklin in a bill about vampire rights. It ends with Jack losing his political ideals and attacking the congregation killing MC Skatt Kat and Ben Franklin becomes a werewolf and Jack takes Paula Abdul Blackwood to be his bride. Overall it was a ridiculous but fantastic performance with little to now meaning (slogans include "no taxation without representation and blood" and "i only believe in one thing revenge......and love...........wait, that's two things")